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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19382
Date: 1976 May 06
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Item
Folio 63: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Widespread rumour of plague in Portugal unfounded. Arrival...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/51/30
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This record is about the Folio 63: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Widespread rumour of plague in Portugal unfounded. Arrival... dating from 1757 Dec 9 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 89/51/30
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1757 Dec 9
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Folio 63: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Widespread rumour of plague in Portugal unfounded. Arrival of Rio de Janeiro Fleet with treasure amounting to about 9 million cruzados. D'Ache's French squadron called at Rio on its way to the East Indies. Five English East-Indiamen called at Bahia. Benjamin Keene hopes to leave for England very soon via Lisbon, but `his health seems so indifferent that I doubt whether he will be able to perform the journey.'.
Date and place: 1757 Dec 9 Lisbon.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal
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